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He plans to keep it as a private foundation that is using a donation model to keep it going.

I abandoned Whatsapp several years ago and since then have used Signal nearly every day (to keep in touch with a handful of friends), have had a recurring monthly donation set up for a couple of years now.

One on the one hand there’s the privacy, but what clinched it for me originally was the ability to seamlessly switch from my tablet to the cellphone to the desktop, all Apple. Signal was (and probably still is) better at this than Whatsapp.

“I don’t want to give Zuckerberg all my information for free, or ever, at all” - is what I’ve said to people when they ask why I don’t have Whatsapp. For the most part, they shrug as if to say “fair enough”. By and large, it’s become an acceptable reason.

Through the past few years, I’ve been communicating with my five best friends via Signal. They installed the app and started using it just to stay in touch with me. Like I said - best friends, they did that for me.

But their gesture have been rewarded…! …with Twitter-thread-style text walls from Yours Truly! About whatever subject is on my mind that night.

From the 70s films of Robert Altman, to the impact of The Stone Roses on 90s British music, to the difference between Baroque and Rococo, to Major League Baseball rule changes, to Bitcoin miners in Xinjiang and Kazakhstan, to Neutrino Cosmic Background Radiation, to good ol’ fashioned meme shitposting - surreal memes, recursive memes, dank memes, bone hurting juice… you name it, we got it.

So far, they don’t seem to mind it too much. It doesn’t happen every day and I gotta feel inspired, as opposed to bored texting.

It will NOT feature Bullwinkle and Julia, that’s for sure.

Now there’s a The Onion headline if I’ve ever seen one.

Fun Boy Three - “Our Lips Are Sealed (12-inch)”
Sounding in places like Massive Attack, almost a decade before Massive Attack.

EDIT: I’m seeing an expando on the links in other comments but not on mine. I used the link function (chain icon) to post the YouTube video. Does anyone here know how to format the link properly so an expando appears in this comment?

EDIT2: Huh… now the expando is there. Never mind, carry on, etc.

Can’t have a proper russian circus snafu clusterfuck without Kadyorov’s Klowns.

Virgin Fake Existentialist vs Chad True Existentialist

Religion that worships The God Of The Desert is still stuck in the Middle Eastern desert five thousand years ago, when science was non-existent and even writing/reading was a rare thing, as baffling to most people then as the inner workings of AI are to us now.

The principles and values (some sensible, some nonsensical and dangerous in the present world) of people living in the desert five thousand years ago are still being hammered into our minds as children by those who had it hammered to them as children also. Some break free of this conditioning in view of modern evidence, some do it partially, some don’t do it at all.

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.
Wait… or is it the other way around?

There was one sideloaded app for Roku that I truly loved, a knockoff of FilmOn that had all the main British channels, like the BBC ones, Channel Four and ITV. But one day about a year ago - maybe a little bit more - Roku nuked it.

Great read. Whoever composed the article sure did their research, it’s a collage of past and present interviews that weaves a hindsight narrative straight from the mouths of those who were there, including people like Kurt Cobain.

Fidgety corporate ADHD. Constantly breaking things that used to work and now they don’t, all across the extended ecosystem (such as Alexa). Some assholes trying to justify their salary as the clueless and mesmerized suits go along with it, this is “metrics” anti-culture they’ve created. High-fiving themselves and giving themselves bonuses, for making things palpably enshittified.

It also sounds kinda like Lucas with the Original Trilogy.

A long time ago, I kinda sorta noticed during the toxic 2016 presidential election in the United States.
But when I (and a lot of other people) really noticed was right after russia invaded Ukraine, since then the barrage of non-stop, hollow, fact-less infotainment published multiple times a day, every single day, has been relentless.

They publish A LOT of unverified hearsay with wishful thinking - meaning “shit you want to hear”. They’ve put putin on death’s door, the imminent collapse of the russian economy and society, or an imminent kremlin coup, countless times in the past year and a half.

Yet another casualty in the clickbait enshittication of the internet.

Gotta wonder just how many of those construction workers either don’t bother to vote (bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe!), or vote republican (at least we ain’t got no ‘Murica-hatin’ libruls!), like a frog in the pot demanding that the stove be cranked up to high.

I’m going to say what you did, more diplomatically:

While I don’t condone extortion via hacking or any other means, I acknowledge that Reddit and its’ dysfunctional, incompetent corporate culture - with Huffman at the top - brought this development upon themselves.

In one of those 70s Fat Albert episodes, I think it was Rudy who one day showed up wearing a jacket of “genuine imitation leather”. That term has stuck with me for decades.

I mean… imagine severing ties with a petty and greedy loudmouth bully that generates environmental and humanitarian catastrophes out of sheer spite.

Gotta say that I like the Kbin GUI better. And let’s see what features and options they come up with in the near future. And apps!

I was trying to do this on Monday and couldn’t, so I thought it wasn’t possible. But now, here we are, and here it is!

…which is now open for business!